Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Photography Changes Everything



click! photography changes everything is a collection of original essays, stories and images—contributed by experts from a spectrum of professional worlds and members of the project’s online audience—that explore the many ways photography shapes our culture and our lives. A project of the former Smithsonian Photography Initiative, texts and content for click were commissioned and compiled between 2007-2010. A print version of the project is now available.
Explore how photography changes Who We Are, What We Do, What We See, Where We Go, What We Want and What We Remember.

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Monday, June 10, 2013

Paid Student Arts Leadership Position Available


I wanted to share this opportunity with you to forward to any interested students.
We have recently re-opened the gallery programmer position and the new deadline to apply is June 28, 2013.
This is a paid student leadership position in the arts with an average time commitment of 12 hours a week.
This is an excellent opportunity for a student interested in running a gallery space.
Programmer responsibilities would include chairing the gallery committee, selecting and curating exhibits, and organizing opening receptions & gallery events.
Students must be undergraduates enrolled full time on the Pullman campus.
Feel free to share this information, I’m happy to answer any questions students may have.

Angel Nava
Arts & Programs Coordinator, Student Involvement
Washington State University
Compton Union Building Room 320 | PO Box 647204 | Pullman, WA 99163-7204
P: 509.335.2313
| F: 509.335.2493 | angel.nava@wsu.edu <mailto:angel.nava@wsu.edu>
www.studentinvolvement.wsu.edu <
http://www.studentinvolvement.wsu.edu/> | www.seb.wsu.edu <http://www.seb.wsu.edu/>

  


Monday, May 27, 2013

The Palouse Review

The Palouse Review is the online arts and literary journal of the Honors College at Washington State University. Staffed by Honors faculty editors and undergraduate Honors student interns, the journal accepts works of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art and photography, music, and digital and other media. Work is original to Honors undergraduates, unique, and interpretative.


http://www.thepalousereview.com

Monday, May 20, 2013

The power of photography: time, mortality and memory

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/interactive/2013/may/19/power-photography-time-mortality-memory?CMP=twt_gu#blake-morrison

The power of photography: time, mortality and memory
We take thousands of pictures nowadays, but do we still cherish them? We asked writers and artists, including Grayson Perry and Mary McCartney, to pick a shot they treasure – and tell us the role photography has played in their lives

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Art and Craft (To the Best of Our Knowledge)

05.19.2013
It’s Art & Craft week at TTBOOK, but we’re not gluing macaroni to cardboard. 
From the halls of London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, to the MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms; from a craft studio on the coast of Maine, to "outsider artists" at the Venice Biennale...
We’re looking at what we make, why it matters, and how it’s shaping our future.
http://www.ttbook.org/book/art-and-craft

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

The Photobook as Experience with John Mann


Dear friends,
Just wanted to let you know that there are still a few spots left in my course The Photobook as Experience being taught this summer at Penland in North Carolina.
It promises to be an exciting course that will examine a huge amount ( a car load full!)  of important historic and contemporary photobooks, while the students learn to edit, sequence, print, and bind their own
photographic book projects.  This course will have individual and group instruction, and is applicable to all photographic levels.

So, if you know anyone who might be interested, please consider passing this info along.

Many thanks!
John 

John Mann - The Photographic Book as Experience  June 9-21 Penland School of Crafts
This class is for people who want to expand their photographic work into the book format. We will consider what the linear (or nonlinear!) experience of the book may offer through the possibilities of photographic sequencing and book design. The class will concentrate on individual book projects (students can bring current ones or start fresh) while examining historic and experimental examples. We will explore page design, sequencing, hand bookbinding, and finesse output through advanced inkjet printing techniques. The class will include image making, digital skills, hikes, critiques, and lots of experimentation. All levels. 

Associate professor at Florida State University; exhibitions: Dan Cooney Fine Art (NYC) Ditch Projects (OR) Houston Center for Photography, Jen Bekman Gallery (NYC), Phillips de Pury (London), Conveyor Arts (NYC), Columbia College Chicago.  
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Day 2, Summer Photo

Pinhole Demo Images, Paper Negative, Leonardo Pinhole Camera. In front of the WSU
Art Museum with Martin Stadium in the Background. 

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Upcoming Photography Exhibition in Gallery 3, WSU Fine Art


BECOMING
Four artists contemplate childhood through contemporary fine art photography

Dennis DeHart          www.dennisdehart.com
Rachel Jerome Ferrao    www.racheljeromeferraro.com
Elizabeth Fleming          www.elizabethfleming.com
Ian van Coller   www.ianvancoller.com
Inaugural exhibitions:
Washington State University, Department of Fine Arts, Pullman, Washington.
Gallery 3, Fine Arts Building (Adjacent to the WSU Art Museum)
May 1-25, 2013

   Becoming is a fine art, traveling exhibition focused on childhood through the lens of contemporary photography. Initially an exhibition idea spearheaded by native South African photographer Ian van Coller, Becoming examines childhood through poignant moments of family, humor, intrigue, and drama

   Ian van Coller, a Professor of Photography at Montana State University, will exhibit prints from his series and book “Growing Up in Montana,” which focuses on childhood innocence. Citing the ability to study life through photographs as her primary drive to make pictures, New York-based commercial and art photographer Rachel Jerome Ferraro will be showcasing her personal fine art work in “Family.” Drawing largely from her interest in memory, longing and mystery in the everyday, New Jersey-based photographer Elizabeth Fleming will be presenting work from her project “Life is a Series of Small Moments.” Embracing a philosophical point of view of early childhood education and play, Washington State Fine Art faculty member Dennis DeHart will exhibit photographs from his series “At Play. 


Summer Photography Course: May 6-31, 2013: Enroll NOW!

F A 367 Special Topics—Photography
Summer 2013
May 6-31, Monday-Friday, 9-11.

There is a summer photography class happening first session. Areas we will be focusing on include:

•Understand DSLR cameras, technically and artistically
•How to use Adobe Lightroom to import, organize, edit and present images
•Use technical tools of photography to observe and extend natural phenomena
•Explore psychological, emotional, and experiential perspectives on place and space.
•View fine art photographers work
•Take field trips to several locations
•Exposure/how to meter/read light
•Photography in regards to Input (make photo) output (print/upload, etc photo)
•Projects synthesizing conceptual, technical, aesthetic, emotion, and design principles

Group multiple project, 385 Class Project, Spring 2013
As always, it will be a great learning experience and a lot of  f u n

C o u r s e T h e m e : T h e S u b j e c t i v i t y o f P l a c e a n d S p a c e
The emphasis in the course will be on our psychological, emotional, and experiential
perspectives on place and space. This will include classroom lectures, seminar, technical
demos, reading, and photographing in the field. We will be taking several day trips to
various locations throughout the Palouse region. We will also be discussing issues
centered on how we interpret space and places through culture, memory, physicality, and
aesthetics. Technically, we will be working with different imaging techniques in order to
extend, layer, and expand our perceptions of space. We will be looking at works by a variety of contemporary photographers.

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Trevor Paglen - The Last Pictures Project Video




Trevor Paglen - The Last Pictures Project Video from Creative Time on Vimeo.

Since 1963, more than eight hundred spacecraft have been launched into geosynchronous orbit, forming a man-made ring of satellites around the Earth. These satellites are destined to become one of the longest-lasting artifacts of human civilization, quietly floating through space long after every trace of humanity has disappeared from the planet.

Trevor Paglen’s The Last Pictures is a project that marks one of these spacecraft with a visual record of our contemporary historical moment. Paglen spent five years interviewing scientists, artists, anthropologists, and philosophers to consider what such a cultural mark should be. Working with materials scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Paglen developed an artifact designed to last billions of years—an ultra-archival disc, micro-etched with one hundred photographs and encased in a gold-plated shell. In Fall 2012, the communications satellite EchoStar XVI will launch into geostationary orbit with the disc mounted to its anti-earth deck. While the satellite’s broadcast images are as fleeting as the light-speed radio waves they travel on, The Last Pictures will remain in outer space slowly circling the Earth until the Earth itself is no more.

http://vimeo.com/53655801

Monday, April 8, 2013

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Summer Advanced Photography Intensive/NYC at Columbia University


Wednesday, April 03, 2013 1:53 PM
Dear Dennis DeHart,

I am writing to tell you about our new Advanced Photography Intensive/NYC at Columbia University as part of the Columbia Summer Arts program.  This is a six week intensive that engages the students in the fundamentals of photographic practice and the development of a portfolio. 

The course is designed for three distinct types of students: college graduates preparing to apply for MFA programs, experienced photographers looking to gain knowledge of the photographic tradition and its advanced techniques, and seasoned artists and teachers wishing to rigorously develop their practice through a critical dialogue with faculty, visiting artists and other students. 

For more information, including how to apply, visit:

Please pass this information along to anyone you know at Washington State University who might be interested.  The admissions deadline is April 24th and there are a few spots still available for this summer.

best,

Kai McBride

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Kai McBride
Advanced Photo Intensive/NYC Coordinator
School of the Arts, Columbia University